“I don’t know when I fell in love with you. It happened slowly, I think, but maybe we planted the seeds that first night. One day I just looked at you, and I knew. It was like my world stopped, and all I could focus on was the way I felt in that moment, like I’d come alive, stepped out of the shadows and into the sunshine, embraced all of me for the first time in my life because I’d found someone who let me be me without ever asking me to change a thing. Someone who saw me and just . . . appreciated me. Exactly as I was. There is nothing in this world that could pull me away from you, Jaxon.
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